HL Deb 16 November 1976 vol 377 cc1244-5

71 Clause 56, page 79, line 23, at end insert— or any factory, dry-dock, graving dock, or other premises or land situated in the United Kingdom to which an acquired company was entitled to an interest in possession or a licence to occupy and which on or at any time after the initial date was being used for repairing, refitting or maintaining ships unless such factory, dry dock, graving dock, or other premises or land are either wholly appurtenant to the shipbuilding undertaking carried on at a shipyard or other works in which the acquired company had an interest in possession on 31st July 1974 or are mainly appurtenant to property or rights which are wholly appurtenant to that undertaking or cannot reasonably be severed therefrom;".

The Commons disagreed to this Amendment for the following Reason:

72 Because it would undesirably exempt certain transactions from the safeguarding provisions of the Bill.

8.23 p.m.

Lord CAMPBELL of CROY

My Lords, I beg to move that this House doth not insist on Amendment No. 71 but doth propose the following Amendment, No. 72A, in lieu thereof:

72A Page 79, line 23, at end insert ("or any factory, dry-dock, graving dock, or other premises or land situated in the United Kingdom in which an acquired company was entitled to an interest in possession or a licence to occupy and which on or at any time after the initial date was being used for repairing, refitting or maintaining ships unless:

  1. (i) that factory, dry dock, graving dock, those premises or that land is or are wholly appurtenant to the shipbuilding undertaking carried on at a shipyard or other works in which the acquired company had an interest in possession on 31st July 1974 or is or are mainly appurtenant to property or rights which are wholly appurtenant to that undertaking; Or
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  2. (ii) that factory, dry dock, graving dock, those premises, that land, that property or those rights, as the case may be, cannot reasonably be severed from the shipbuilding undertaking").

This is the last of the Amendments which were discussed with an earlier Amendment concerning Vosper Thornycroft.

Moved, That this House doth not insist on Amendment No. 71 but doth propose Amendment No. 72A in lieu thereof.—(Lord Campbell of Croy.)